Cash register



Jan. 29, 19135. G. A. KMMLING CASH REGISTER Filed Oct. 27, 1933 FIG.

.J m. O 5 2 2 m m W :inventor 1.66.6. A. Kmmng His (ttorneg PatentedJan. 29, 1935 ATN CASH REGISTER Leo G. A. Kmmling, Berlin, Germany,assigner to the National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, acorporation of Maryland Application October `27, 1933, Serial No.695,413 In Germany November 5, 1932 5 Claims. (Cl. lOl-3) This invention`relates to improvements in cash registers and like machines, and isparticularly adapted to be used in connection with printing mechanismson machines of the type shown and described in United States LettersPatent to B. M. Shipley No. 1,360,151, dated November 23, 1920.

The main purpose and object of this invention is to design a printingmechanism having novel means for embossing or printing upon a sales slipsome record or identification to show that the slip Was properly printedby the machine, which in turn insures that the amounts printed on theslips have been properly registered in the machine.

In the present invention this manner of marking or identifying the salesslips is accomplished in a novel manner and by novel mechanism whichimmediately after the machine is started grips the sales vslip and holdsit in position while the same is being printed, after which saidmechanism is rendered operativeto feed the slip out of the machine on atable so that it may be readily removed by the clerk, and eitherhandedto the customer or placed with the bill of goods to be delivered.

, tion is to provide gripping and feeding means with suitable charactersof any desired form, which .characters willv be impressed adjacent theedges of the sales slip as the same is being fed toward the table fromwhich it is later removed by the clerk.

With these and incidental objects in View, the invention includescertain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, theessential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and apreferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter described withreference to the drawing which accompanies and forms part of thisspecification.

Of said drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, illustrating the novelmechanism-for feeding and embossing the sales slip.

Fig. 2 is an edge elevation, partly in section, of a portion of themechanism shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view, in reduced scale, of a sales slip, showingthe location of the data printed thereon relative to the embossingadjacent the edges thereof.

Detailed description The printing mechanism with which the presentinvention is adapted to be used includes three sets of type wheels 30,31 and 32 (Fig. 2), the type wheels 30 being the amount wheels, thewheels 3l.

the consecutive number Wheels, and the Wheels 32 the date wheels.Associated with the printing Wheels is the usual inking ribbon 33 shownin dot and dash lines. Below the type wheels is. ar-

ranged the usual guide or table 34 adapted to receive a sales slip 35,or any other material upon which it is desired to print, to receive therecord of the sale as indicated in Fig. 3, which record includes thedate, consecutive number of thensale, and the amount of the sale. Ahammer 36 (Fig. l) is arranged below the table 34 and'adaptedV to bemoved upwardly to contact the sales slip with the type wheels to imprintthe amount, consecutive number and date set up on they respectiveWheels. This hammer operates through an opening (not shown) in the table34.

On each side of the groups of type wheels is a segment 37, each of whichis held by ay spring 38 against a stop pin 39. There is only one yof thesprings 38 and stop pins 39 shown.

Cooperating 'with the segment 37 is a Vpairof feeding segments 40 (Figs.1 and 2) secured to'a shaft 41 rotatably supported by two` arms 42.These arms 42 pivot on a shaft43 andare connected by springs 44 to arms45 which are se. cured tothe shaft 43. There is only lone of the Aarms45 and one of the springs 44 shown. l

kAlso secured to this shaft 43 is an arm 44 carrying .rollers 47cooperating with a cam disk 48 xed on a rotatable shaft 49.` Thisshaft49 'is rotated one complete rotation by means not here shown duringeach operation of the machine.

The operation of the mechanism thus far described is as follows: It Willbe observed by the arrow shown in Fig. 1 that the shaft 49 rotates inaclockwise direction during which movement the cam 48 rocks the arm 46,shaft 43 and arms 45 in a counter-clockwise direction whereupon theSprings 44 cause the varms 42 to be rockedlikewise which lifts the shaft4l, thus causing the segments 4D to contact the segments 37. The table34 is provided with slots 50 through which the segments 40 project. y

The peripheries of the segments 3'7 and 40 are shown serrated in Fig. 1,and in Fig. 3 adjacent the edges of the sales slip 35 .are shown twolines of short horizontal lines which represent embossing. f

However, it is to be distinctly and clearly understood that in lieu ofthese lines the peripheries of the segments 37 and 4 0 may be engravedand embossed respectively withl any. suitable characters, words orhieroglyphics which may be desired by the proprietor. Whatever is placedon the peripheries of the segments 3'7 and 40 is made to absolutelyregister, that is, where the characters are engraved on one pair ofsegments they are embossed on the other pair of segments so that the twopairs will always fit and properly line up when the segments 40 areraised into cooperative relation with the segments 37 so that When-thesalesfslip is between the two, whatever characters or 'hieroglyphics areAembossed or engraved on the two pairs of segments, will be ernbossed onthe sales slip adjacent the edges thereof, as shown by the referencecharacters 51 in Fig. 3.

After the pair of segments 40 .have been brought into cooperativerelation with the 'segments 37, the segments 40 are rotated -in:aclockwise direction to feed the sales slip 35 toward the right as viewedin Fig. 1 lto emboss along the adjacent edges thereof the characters onthe peripheries of the segments 37 and 40 as the sales slip 35 is fedtoward the right onto the inclined part xof thetable 34.

`The mechanism 4for rocking lthe segments 40 Secured to the-cam shaft'49 is a `cam disk 55 4cooperating 'wi-th rollers 56 carried by a lever57 `pivotedon 'a stud -58 carried by one Vof the arms 4'5. The rollers56 permit the shaft v43 to be 'rotated counter-clockwise by t-he cam 48in the manner above described.

fThe lever 57 has a `slot 58 through vwhich lextends a screw 59 'which4also extends through a slot -60 Vin an arm 6l nintegral ,with one ofthe feeding segments '40. The screw 59 is tightened or clamped in one of'the 'slots in a definite fixed position and allowed to slide in theother slot:

During the time the cam 48 `is rocking the .arm 45 counter-clockwise to.raise Athe segments 40 into cooperative relation with the lsegments 37the'stud 58is of course movedslight'ly toward the shaft 49, whereuponthe rollers v56 will slide over the edges of 'the cam 55 and the screw59 will slide 'in the slot 58 assuming that it Ihas 'been clampedinafixedpositionin .theslot '60, which is the preferable way to securethese two parts together;

After the segments 40 and 37 have been thus engagedfby the .rocking ofthe Vshaft 43 the cam 5 .through the lever 57 and screw '5'9 .rocks thesegments 40 in .a clockwise direction while they are in engagementwith'the segments 37 withfthe sales slip 35 between them, thus feedinglthe sales slip toward the right and Aat the same time .embossing,characters represented by the lines 51 adjacent the edges of the salesslip. After this feeding and embossing has taken place the cam 4'84rocks the arm 46 and shaft 43 clockwise to normal position whereby thearms 42 .are likewise rocked to lower the shaft 41 and Adisengage the,segments 4D vfrom the segments 37. Immedlately .upon this disengagementof the segments 40 from the segments 37 the springs 38, there being oneattached to each of the .segments 37 immediately rocks said segments 37clockwise to their normal positions in contact with the studs `39 Where.they always occupy the same positions relatively to the segments 40whenA the latter are in their home positions thereby always insuringcorrect .registration ,of the characters on the peripheries of thesegments 37 and 40 to prop- .erly emboss the sales slip ,35.

While the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirablyadapted. to Vfulfill the objects primarily stated, it is to beunderstood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the oneform of embodiment herein disclosed,

for it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coming withinthe scope of the claims which follow.

What -is claimed is:

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination of means forprinting on record material; .a pair of feeding and embossing members; asecond pair of feeding and embossing members adapted to cooperate withthe rst pair of members but normally disengaged therefrom; means :forengaging the second pair of members with the :first pair of members; andmeans for rocking the second pair of members to cause both pairs 'ofvmembers 'to simultaneously emboss and feed lthe record material.

.2. In amachine of the class described, the combination of means forprinting on record material; a pair of feeding and embossing members; asecond pair of feeding and embossing members adapted to cooperate withthe first -pair of members but normally disengaged therefrom; means-for-engagingthesecond pair of members with the first pair of'm'embers;-means for 'rocking vthesec- `ond pair of members to cause .both pairsof members to simultaneously emboss and feed the record material; andmeans to restore said first pair of members to normal independently ofysaid second pair of members.

3. In a machine of the-class described, the combination of means forprinting on record material; a pair of feeding and embossing members; asecond pair of feeding and embossing members adapted to' cooperate withthe first pair of mem- -bers 'but normally disengaged therefrom;rockable means for supporting said second pair of members; `mechanism'for operating said rockable means to engage the second pair of memberswith the 'frst'pair Yof members, said mechanism including a cam and aresilient member; cam-ming means; and means carried lby said mechanismand operated by said camming means for oscillating the second pair ofmembers.

4Il. Ina machine of the classdescribed, the combination of mechanism forprinting on record material; feeding and embossing means; feeding andembossing devices adapted to cooperate with said means Ibut normallydisengaged thereandembossing devices adapted to cooperate with saidmeans but normally disengaged therefrom; rockable supporting means forlsaid devices; mechanism including a cam, a plurality of arms and 'aspring for operating said supporting means to engage said devices withsaid feeding and embossing means; a second cam; a lever carried by oneof said varms and operated by 'said second cam; and means intermediatesaid devices and said lever for oscillating said devices upon operationof saidlever. LEO G. A. KOMMLNG.

